Improvement in harness-tug buckles



N0. 118,326. I Patented Aug. 22,1871.

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IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-TUG BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,326, dated August 22, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. ABEEL, of the city of Marshalltown, Marshall coinity, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Harness-Tug Fastener or Tug-Buckle and Harness-Tug Eyelet; and I do hereby decla-re that 4 marked C is a side view of the plate I insert in the tug, which I call the eyelet.

My invention relates to the manufacture of harness-buckles 5 and it consists in a novel construction of devices intended to serve as ,efficient means for connecting and adjusting the tug to the harness proper.

D of the drawing represents the main body or frame of my tu; 2;bucl;le7 of which the bars a and c form the inner and the bars j' and l@ the outer supports of the tug, in the manner shown on Fig. 1. B represents .a sliding tongue formed with shoulders at m and u, and adapted to slide back and forth under the bars f and h and upon the outer side of the tug. The spur s is intended to pass into an o}l ening in the tug and through the eyelet, as hereinafter mentioned. I may attach one or more additional spurs to this tongue for the purpose of securing greater stability to the fastening attachment. C represents a circular plate folded between the two strips of leather that form the tug and made secure therein by means of the spurs Y Y. The center of this plate is perforated7 as shown at Z, and is placed directly in the line of an opening in the tug, through which a spur ofthe sliding tongue is passed.

These plates (which I call eyelets) may be 1nul tiplied at will in the construction of the tug.

I claim as my invention- The tug-fastening apparatus herein described7 consisting of the frame D7 bars a c j' h, sliding tong/ge B, and eyelet C, constructed and arranged subs antially as speciiied.

C. S. ABEEL.

Witnesses:

JAMES LANG, A. O. GREENE. 

